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GOAL SETTING A NECESSARY TOOL IN ACHIEVING SUCCESS Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by Ipinnaiye Opeyemi Isaiah, Nigeria May 6, 2006
Child & Youth Rights   Opinions

  


Some goals have been difficult to attain because they are incredible ones, setting incredible goals and non attainment of it might make one feel like a failure, so you need to set goals that are attainable and feasible.
It is important that goals we set for ourselves are rewarding and time-bound. If your goals are rewarding it builds your self esteem and gives you the drive in achieving your goals. The time frame set for your goals can not be overemphasized, whether you set long term goals or short term goals, it must be time bound.

SMART goals are result oriented, so once you have set your goals run through the SMART analysis. We should learn to be dynamic because sometimes our goals might not work in your favor not because one is not committed or hard working but a circumstance beyond one’s control affects the goals. It makes a whole lot of sense if there are back up plans for our goals. I have seen young people who have wasted time because their goals were not working in their favor. A good illustration is that of a young man who had to spend three years at home because his goal to attend a particular University could not be attained. He had excellent scores in all the University entrance examinations he attempted to gain admission to that University but he was always denied admission. In that circumstance, it is advisable to try admission in other equally reputable Universities.
Having back up plans is not a yard stick for you to set weak goals, setting weak goals will make your achievement be unnoticed because it will always be compared with every other achievement.
If you have not set goals for yourself remember like the analogy at the beginning of this article, your life can be compared with the herd of cows without herdsman - no direction, no sense of purpose and being a nuisance because you might want to disturb those that have goals and possibly derail them from attaining their goals.
Remember it is not too late, pick up a paper and write down your goals, begin to plan on how to achieve your goals and someday you will speak like that triple jumper “All the work I have done has paid off.”





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Ipinnaiye Opeyemi Isaiah


My name is Opeyemi Ipinnaiye. I am a 24 year old graduate of Business Administration from the Universitry of Ado-ekiti in 2002. Presently I work as the program support officer of Voluntary Service Overseas
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Goal Setting
ANNELINE | Jun 27th, 2006
Everything you said is, oh so true, congrats.



Getting right
Arogundade, Tayo | Jun 30th, 2006
Golal setting does a lot of things to life it is one of the real living spring of life it allowas you to know where you are coming from,where you are and where you are going. It is like playing football with a goal post and without it is like playing footbal without a goal post. So in everthing a person does setting a goal is very much important. Tayo.

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